The Rising Leader Pass gives senior industry leaders the opportunity to nominate high potential practitioners already conducting discovery work on their behalf, providing those rising leaders with a fully hosted LINK27 experience focused on real business priorities.
TRIC, SCL1, and Transportation committee members are among the most senior supply chain and distribution executives in retail. They set strategy, govern priorities, and make decisions.
But much of the ground-level evaluation of new solutions, technologies, and vendors is handled by the Directors and Senior Managers beneath them.
The Rising Leader Pass formalizes that workflow. A senior leader nominates a trusted practitioner, that person conducts discovery at LINK27, and the intelligence comes directly back to the executive.
A TRIC, SCL1, or Transportation committee member identifies one high-potential practitioner from their team.
The nominee receives a fully hosted pass with registration, hotel, and travel covered.
Ten curated 1:1 meetings are precision-matched to the nominee's active projects and priorities.
The nominee returns with relevant vendor intelligence and actionable recommendations for their executive.
This is not a discounted ticket. It is a reward and a business tool conferred by the people who run the industry.
Transportation & Infrastructure Council. C-suite and VP-level leaders who set transportation strategy. Their teams are constantly evaluating solutions, carriers, and technology and reporting those findings back up.
Supply Chain Leaders Tier 1. The most senior retailer attendees at LINK. These executives govern while their direct reports investigate and evaluate potential solutions.
Transportation Committee members influence procurement and strategy while remaining close enough to operations to identify the practitioners doing real solution evaluation.
LINK 2026 attendance data shows that Directors and Managers already make up a significant share of hosted participants, confirming that practitioners are already being sent to explore solutions and support business decision making.
| Title | Paid | Hosted | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director | 31.7% | 40.2% | +8.5 |
| Manager | 23.2% | 29.4% | +6.2 |
| VP Level | 28.8% | 15.9% | −13.9 |
| C-Level | 12.9% | 7.5% | −5.4 |
The takeaway: Directors and Managers already represent nearly 70% of hosted participants. The Rising Leader Pass gives this existing behavior a name, structure, and funding mechanism.
LINK's hosted meeting program has set the benchmark for curated B2B matchmaking in supply chain. The Rising Leader Pass brings the practitioners doing active solution discovery into that same environment.
The workflow already exists. Senior leaders already rely on their teams to evaluate vendors, technologies, and solutions.
LINK already has the infrastructure. The hosted program provides the curated meetings and matchmaking needed to make that discovery productive.
The opportunity is to connect the two. The Rising Leader Pass creates a defined pathway, professional recognition, and a measurable business outcome.
Rising Leader nominees receive a structured post event debrief that reviews meeting outcomes and key recommendations they can bring directly back to their nominating executive, helping turn the LINK27 experience into actionable business intelligence rather than simply event attendance.
A structured pathway that rewards trusted practitioners, brings the right discovery talent into the room, and sends actionable intelligence back to the senior leaders shaping the industry's priorities.
